Virtual Environments Job Trends in London

Virtual Environments
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Virtual Environments skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 381 392 422
Rank change year-on-year +11 +30 +232
Permanent jobs citing Virtual Environments 14 33 14
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.10% 0.21% 0.079%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.22% 0.085%
Number of salaries quoted 10 25 14
10th Percentile £48,000 £70,500 £62,000
25th Percentile £48,750 £72,000 £67,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £76,500 £87,500
Median % change year-on-year -31.37% -12.57% +45.83%
75th Percentile £68,438 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £105,375 £104,300 £97,000
England median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +23.53% -10.53%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Virtual Environments falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,117 14,907 16,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 88.36% 94.37% 92.91%
Number of salaries quoted 7,725 8,332 13,201
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,000 £41,750
25th Percentile £51,250 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £73,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £116,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Virtual Environments
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Virtual Environments relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Virtual Environments job vacancy trend in London

Virtual Environments
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Virtual Environments.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Virtual Environments

Virtual Environments
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Virtual Environments in London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Virtual Environments in London

Virtual Environments
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtual Environments within the London region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West London - 1 £120,000 - 2
Virtual Environments
England

Virtual Environments
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) Azure
2 6 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Azure AKS
3 4 (28.57%) GitHub
4 2 (14.29%) AWS
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (7.14%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (7.14%) GCP
5 1 (7.14%) Pulumi
5 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) Git
2 6 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Legal
2 3 (21.43%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Aviation
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Law
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Junior
3 2 (14.29%) Junior DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) Junior DevOps Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.14%) Driving Licence
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (42.86%) Linux
2 5 (35.71%) Windows
3 1 (7.14%) CentOS
3 1 (7.14%) VMS
3 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
1 8 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 7 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 6 (42.86%) Containerisation
3 6 (42.86%) Task Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Project Management
5 3 (21.43%) AI
5 3 (21.43%) Biometrics
5 3 (21.43%) Commercialisation
5 3 (21.43%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (21.43%) Development Roadmap
5 3 (21.43%) Information Security
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (21.43%) Product Management
5 3 (21.43%) Product Roadmap
5 3 (21.43%) Roadmaps
5 3 (21.43%) Thought Leadership
5 3 (21.43%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) Bash
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
1 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) QA
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Docker
2 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (7.14%) Hyper-V
3 1 (7.14%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Terraform
2 6 (42.86%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.14%) Ansible
3 1 (7.14%) Grafana
3 1 (7.14%) Nagios
3 1 (7.14%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 2 (14.29%) VMware
2 1 (7.14%) Cvent
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) NVIDIA
2 1 (7.14%) Rapid7
2 1 (7.14%) Splunk